Conference Chair & Opening Remarks
Prof. Chan Siew Hwa,Nanyang Technological University, Singapore,
Co-Director
Energy Research Institute @ NTU (ERI@N)
Professor Chan is the Fellow of Academy of
Engineering, Singapore and President’s Chair in Energy. He
obtained his PhD from Imperial College London and is a Professor
in the School of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering. He leads
the hydrogen and fuel cell research in Nanyang Technological
University. Dr Chan is one of the founding members and a
Co-Director of the Energy Research Institute @ NTU (ERI@N). He
is also the Vice Director of Sino-Singapore International Joint
Research Institute in Guangzhou Knowledge City, China. Prof Chan
is a Director of Maz Energy Pte Ltd and Xin Xiang (Guangzhou)
Hydrogen Technologies Co., Ltd. He is a consultant to Total SA
and had served as a member of Advisory Board to NTU President
and Provost, Management Board of Energy Studies Institute,
Advisory Board of Horizon Fuel Cell Technologies, Sino-Singapore
Guangzhou Knowledge City Think Tank, etc.
Funded by UK’s Royal Armament Research and Development
Establishment, Dr Chan’s PhD research was inclined to Heavy-Duty
Internal Combustion Engines, but he extended his interest to
hydrogen and fuel cells since 1997. He was the
Organizer/Conference Chair of 1st World Hydrogen Technologies
Convention, Singapore in 2005 and Conference Chair of HYPOTHESIS
XIII in 2018. From 2006 to 2008, he held a joint appointment
with A*Star as Director of SERC Fuel Cell Program leading a team
of more than 100 people from 4 A*Star Institute working with
Rolls Royce Fuel Cell System. Prof Chan was also a Principal
Investigator in Singapore-Peking University Research Centre for
A Sustainable Low Carbon Future funded by National Research
Foundation in 2011-2016. His research has gained him a number of
recognitions, which include George-Stephenson Medal from UK
IMechE in 2000, Scientific Achievement Award from International
Association of Hydrogen Energy, USA in 2007, “World’s Most
Influential Scientific Minds” award from Thomson Reuters in
2014, Nanyang Award (Research Excellence) in recognition of
outstanding contribution in scientific knowledge on a global
scale through novel research breakthrough in 2014, Nanyang Award
(Innovation and Entrepreneurship) in 2017, “Star of Innovation
Talent” in 2018 from Guangzhou Government. He is the editorial
board member of Fuel Cells, Journal of Power Technologies,
Energy Conversion and Management and International Journal of
Energy Research. He has published 267 refereed journal papers
with more than 13,000 citation counts and h-index of 58. Prof
Chan has been teaching Thermodynamics course since 1991 and
awarded “Teacher-of-the-Year” in 2000.
Prof. King Jet TSENG, Singapore Institute of Technology, Singapore
IEEE Fellow, IET Fellow , IES Fellow
King-Jet Tseng was born in Singapore and studied at Gan Eng Seng School and Hwa Chong Junior College before receiving his B.Eng. (First Class) and M.Eng. from National University of Singapore, and Ph.D. from Cambridge University in United Kingdom. He has more than 30 years of academic, research, industrial and professional experience in electrical power and energy systems. He has been the Head of Power Engineering Division in Nanyang Technological University and the Board Member of the Singapore Green Building Council. He co-founded the Singapore-Berkeley Building Efficiency and Sustainability for the Tropics (SinBerBEST) program and the Electrical Power Systems Integration Laboratory @ NTU, a Rolls-Royce research facility. He has directly supervised and graduated about 30 PhD students and also inspired a number of technology start-up companies. He is a Fellow of IEEE, a Fellow of IET, a Fellow of IES and registered as Chartered Engineer with UK Engineering Council. Currently, he is the Professor and Advisor for Electrical Power Engineering at Singapore Institute of Technology, working on his vision of future urban electrical distribution architecture which can provide flexible and heterogeneous power quality for greater sustainability. He continues to contribute to International Electrotechnical Commission as a standardization expert for grid-integrated electrical energy storage systems. He has made important contributions to interior permanent magnet synchronous machines, resilient grid interconnection of distributed energy resources, dynamic voltage compensation, arc modeling for transient simulations and energy storage systems in utility applications.
Prof. Dennis Y.C. Leung, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
HKIE Fellow, IMechE Fellow
Prof. Dennis Y.C. Leung received his BEng (1982) and PhD (1988) from the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Hong Kong (HKU). He joined HKU Mechanical Engineering Department in 1993 and became a full professor in 2007. He served as the Head of Department during 2020 to 2023. Professor Leung specializes in environmental pollution control and renewable & clean energy and published more than 600 articles in this area including 370+ peer reviewed top SCI journal papers. His current h-index is 99 and total citations are 51000+. He is one of the top 1% highly cited scientists in the world in energy field since 2010 (Essential Science Indicators) and named as a Highly Cited Researcher by Clarivate Analytics for six consecutive years from 2017. Prof. Leung has delivered more than 80 keynote and invited lectures in international conferences. Prof. Leung is a chartered engineer, a fellow of the IMechE and Energy Institute. He was also the Past Chairman of the Institute of Energy (HK Branch), and currently serves as an editorial board member of a number of journals including Applied Energy, Energy Conversion and Management, Applied Sciences, and Progress in Energy. Prof. Leung also serves as chairman and member of a few committees of the HKSAR government related to sustainable energy and environment. Professor Leung received the Environmental Champion Award (Hong Kong) in 2008 and Advanced Materials Laureate from the International Association of Advanced Materials in 2024.
Invited Speakers
Assoc. Prof. Michela Longo
Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Dr. Michela Longo is an accomplished Associate Professor at the Department of Energy, Politecnico di Milano. With a strong foundation in Electrical Systems for Energy, Dr. Longo served as a Research Fellow in this field at Politecnico di Milano from January 2013 to January 2015. She earned her Ph.D. in Mechatronics, Information, Innovative Technologies, and Mathematical Methods from the University of Bergamo in April 2013, following her graduation in Computer Engineering from the same university in 2009, where she achieved a top score of 110/110. Dr. Longo has been actively engaged in pioneering research across a range of innovative topics since her early Ph.D. years. Her expertise and contributions have led her to be a valued member of technical committees for numerous national and international scientific conferences. In addition to her robust research portfolio, Dr. Longo contributed extensively to teaching at both university and post-doctoral levels and collaborated on multiple research projects funded by both private companies and national public agencies. Main research topics are in the field of electric mobility with a particular focus: Optimization Algorithms for Electric Vehicle and Charging Station Deployment; Development of Charging Infrastructure to Promote Electric Vehicle Adoption, Health Impacts of Charging Infrastructure and drive simulator to analysis the impact of SOC with different driver behaviour.
Assoc.Prof. Nguyen Duc Tuyen
Hanoi University of Science and Technology, Vietnam
Dr. Nguyen Duc Tuyen received an Undergraduate Degree at Hanoi University of Science and Technology in 2006, a Master's Degree in 2009, and a Ph.D. in 2012 at Shibaura Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan. From 2012 to 2015, he was also a researcher at Shibaura Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan, and a part-time lecturer at Chiba University and Tokyo Wildlife College, Japan. From 2015 to 2017, he worked at Tokyo University of Science, Japan. From 2017 to 2018, he conducted research at the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology in Japan. Since 2018, Dr. Nguyen Duc Tuyen has been an Associate Professor of the Department of Electrical Engineering, School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Hanoi University of Science and Technology. He is now also with the Shibaura Institute of Technology as the Adjunct Associate Professor.